Ray Bradbury is a treasure chest for American literature and this show brought him to the masses. The best stories combine humor with dark deeds like the murder story in "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl". Other favorite episodes are the ones where Bradbury write about things that concerns himself like censorship and career death or his science fiction crime stories. Beloved genre actors help out making this show enjoyable. Strangely it seem that the series were hard to finance which make some of the high concept stories look cheap when the stories would have needed the best budget to really work. It can also be hard to remember that most of his stories were written during the 1950s and one have to remember this in context with when they made this series. In the end this ended up as a big hit-and-miss show for me.
I remember anthology series being a thing back then. I watched some of them. Although it says Ray Bradbury in the title it feels much more than the Stephen King Theater mostly. I thought Bradbury was a sci-fi writer - probably my mistake.
Production is low budget and the stories are really hit and miss. And if they miss they do so on a grand scale. A lot of times I wonder just wtf I just watched. What was the sense? From what I've seen so far I'd say that hardly 2 out of 10 episodes are worth the time.
The one thing, I should say the only thing, I really got out of this show was seeing all those well known actors. You recognize a lot of them, some being legit superstars.
I'll rate what I've seen a 3 not because it`s bad, I am sure there are people who like this, but it reflects the avarage rating of the episodes I have seen. Don't know if I'll finish this.
Shout by Buck Flower SingsVIP 7BlockedParent2018-01-05T11:42:15Z— updated 2019-04-26T02:24:20Z
Plenty of meh episodes. Scifi mixed with fantasy based episodes, the problem is the synopsis is often cooler than how the episode plays out. Lots of cameos of high-profile actors today. Of what I've watched, 5/10 is generous.